After meeting recently in Washington, D.C., with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Federal Aviation Administration officials, a delegation from Charleston’s Yeager Airport returned home feeling optimistic the FAA would help pay for replacing the airport’s collapsed safety overrun area.

womanSong Chorale rings in its 19th season with what has become a family tradition: “Comfort and Joy: Christmas with womanSong.” Expect beloved Christmas melodies, seasonal compositions and music of joy, love and peace. Violinists Elizabeth Reed Smith and Angela Scoulas join the group, along with percussionist Brandon Willard, the youthful voices of the Horace Mann Advanced Treble Choir and introducing Lyra, womanSong’s new mentoring choir for high school girls. The concert, conducted by Emily Capece, takes place at 7:30 p.m. at Christ Church United Methodist and tickets are $10.

Dear Abby: My husband of five years has confessed to affairs that resulted in two children. I suspected that something was up when after a year of marriage he seemed distant. Despite our almost 15-year age difference, I never in a million years thought he would do something like this.

Panicking about preparing a Christmas dinner for 15 this year? Wondering what to give your relative who already has everything? Hoping to avoid another Christmas dinner “Pinterest fail” with your tenderloin?

After a steep decline in use, four straight years of operational losses and mounting maintenance costs, the 1,833-acre, 56-year-old Buckskin Scout Reservation camp near Dunmore in Pocahontas County will be mothballed and its summer camping program closed, leaving the facility open for primitive camping only.